/cs-deep-research

/cs:deep-research — Disciplined Meta-Research

Command: /cs:deep-research <question>

The cs-deep-research persona turns "research this" into an auditable, reusable investigation — the workflow to reach for when getting the answer wrong costs more than the tokens spent getting it right.

When to Run

• A low-quality answer is expensive: strategy, business plan, report, or article groundwork.
• Comparing N institutions / products / methods / markets with defensible reasoning.
• Validating a hypothesis or an irreversible decision against external data.
• Meta-research: "understand how X works," "map the landscape of Y."

When NOT to Run

• Quick fact-checks → answer directly.
• Structured 12-dimension competitor scoring → competitive-teardown.
• Fast topic overviews where decision risk is low → the research router (/cs:research).

What You Get

1. Reframe — the question rewritten to the real decision + 2-4 falsifiable hypotheses.
2. plan.md — genre, sourcing strategy, opposition queries, risk register, stop-criteria.
3. Parallel search — sub-agents fanned out across channels; each source saved to sources/NN_slug.md with verbatim quotes + Credibility/Recency/Bias scores.
4. Triangulated synthesis — every thesis backed by >=3 independent, differently-typed sources (or flagged "insufficient evidence"), plus a mandatory adversarial pass.
5. A reusable folder — sources.csv, findings/, final report, and refresh_targets.md for delta-updates later.

Trigger Phrases (auto-invoke without /cs:)

• "deep research on [topic]" / "do a deep dive on [topic]"
• "research this thoroughly / rigorously" / "high-stakes research"
• "compare [N options] and give me defensible reasoning"
• "validate this hypothesis with external data"

Discipline

• No fabricated citations — empty fetch = empty claim.
• Triangulation mandatory — < 3 independent, differently-typed sources → "insufficient evidence," not fact.
• Adversarial pass required on medium/deep investigations.
• Parallel sub-agents — never serial in the search phase.
• Persist to files — the reuse value is the folder, not the transcript.

Stop Conditions

• Report written + every thesis triangulated or flagged + refresh_targets.md emitted → done.
• On an update <slug> run: produce a delta in diffs/ instead of replaying the whole investigation.

Related

• Agent: cs-deep-research
• Skill: deep-research
• Siblings: /cs:pulse (recency), the research router, litreview / dossier / patent

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Version: 1.0.0